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| skiboot-7.1 |
| =========== |
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| skiboot v7.1 was released on Monday Sep 18th 2023. It is the first release of |
| the skiboot 7.1 series, which becomes the new stable release following the |
| :ref:`skiboot-7.0` release, first released Tuesday Oct 26th 2021. |
| |
| Changes in this release are mostly bug fixes, refactoring improvements, and |
| some code deprecation/obsoletion. |
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| New Features |
| ------------ |
| Removed OPAL calls |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| The OPAL_PCI_SET_MVE_ENABLE and OPAL_PCI_SET_MVE calls were removed, as they |
| were noops. Support for IODA1 and both calls was removed from the Linux kernel |
| in v6.5-rc1. |
| |
| Optional POWER8 support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| Most POWER8 code has been conditionalized, making it possible to omit support by |
| building with `CONFIG_P8=0`. The result is a smaller binary targeting POWER9 as |
| the baseline CPU. |
